This is the Guardian gamesblog, so excuse the cliché, but we need more leftie video games. At the moment the right is having all the fun. Recently we've seen Full Spectrum Warrior on Xbox - a game based on an official US army training tool. And coming soon is America's 10 Most Wanted - a first-person shooter lets you hunt down the likes of Bin Laden. Great.

Most games developers may look like Michael Moore but very few of them are acting like him. Even Monty Mole on the ZX Spectrum had a political message. If this 8bit classic could mix caricatures of the striking miners into an innocent platform game then just think what could be achieved by left leaning developers on Xbox or PlayStation 2? Potential titles could include Tomb Raider: Sustainable Tourism edition or maybe Super Mario: Plumber for the Poor. Even the New Labour angle would be interesting. We could have True Crime: Tough on the Causes. Or maybe Championship Manager: NHS edition.

In reality being liberal just isn't as much fun as veering rightwards. In videogaming land it is still more enjoyable to shoot first, ask questions about childhood later. And actually, Full Spectrum Warrior is a decent title. Players get to control two squads dropped into the fictional country of Zekistan. Whether teaching players military tactics is a good thing remains to be seen, but at least brainpower is needed to get a winning strategy. A lack of non-combatants means there is no "collateral damage" - which is useful given the trigger-happy nature of your men - but there is no doubt this would have been less enjoyable as a peace-keeping game.

Even classics like Civilization aren't exempt, teaching players that the best way to "win" is to develop bigger and better weapons to crush opponents.

Are there any games that are politically correct, yet fun to play? Maybe, as Keith says, mobile games are where they will appear...